Sanctuary-lamp wick.



PATENTED OCT. 8, 1905.

C. P. BARON.

SANCTUARY LAMP WICK.

APPLICATION FILED APRQ, 1905 31A vemtoz UNITED STATES PATENT FFIE SANCTUARY-LAMP WICK- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

Application filed April 4, 1905- Serial N0. 253,856-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER P. BARON, of Haymond, in the county of Franklin and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanctuary-Lamp WVicks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and highly-efiicient sanctuary-lamp wick, one that will be consumed concurrently with the oil in which it stands.

The invention will be hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View showing a sanctuary-lamp equipped with my improved wick. Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the wick. Fig. 3 is a view of the socket. Fig. 4: is a view showing the wick and oil half consumed.

Heretofore the form of lamp-wick usually employed in sanctuary-lamps floated on the oil and had to be renewed each day or so, the carbonizing thereof rendering continuous use impossible. It was sought to avoid the necessity of constantly replacing the wick by employing one consisting of textile material woven around a combustible core forming a support. This wick, however, was expensive and difiicult to make, as was also the form employing an ordinary candle-wick encircled by a fine wire suspended from a cross-wire supported by the lamp-bowl. Now by my invention instead of employing cores in the wicks I propose to stiffen the latter by means of a coating of combustible material, so that the wick, while self-supporting, will be consumed along with the oil wherein it stands. In consequence I am enabled to produce a wick that needs no renewal while any of the oil remains unconsumed and which has the further advantage that it may be manufactured at very small cost.

The core 1 is composed of ordinary string or twine of cotton of about the diameter of a candle-wick and is provided with a coating 2 of combustible material of such consistency that when hardened the wick, of ordinary length, will be self-supporting. This'coating is preferably composed of equal parts stearin and lac, into a molten mass of which the string is dipped a few times and the coating then allowed to harden. This requires but a short time.

As is well known, the lamp-bowl 3 is usually filled with olive or cotton-seed oil. The wick is placed in a small holder 4, consisting, preferably, of a disk having a central hole to accommodate the wick. This holder being placed on the bottom of the bowl, the wick will project upright through the oil. consequence it will burn along with the latter and the light will last till the wick is consumed down to its holder.

To enable the holder to be readily removed or replaced, a wire 5 is secured thereto at one end, its other end resting on the rim of the lamp-bowl.

I claim as my invention A sanctuary-lamp comprising a bowl or receptacle, liquid illuminant therein, a removable disk at the bottom of said receptacle having an aperture therein, a rigid wick having a core of textile material and an outer coating of stearin and lac, said Wick being mounted in the aperture of said disk and vertically disposed in said receptacle from the bottom thereof to above the surface of the illuminant, said wick and illuminant being designed to be concurrently consumed, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHRISTOPHER P. BARON.

Witnesses MATHEW MIDDENDORF, AUeUs'r MIDDENDORF. 

